Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-11-19

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iashell and born OF the devil" Even
ii true church doctrine, every code OF
ethics and gospel law lays down the
principles that God created us all
and that no one is responsible for
the condition of birth.
EXTREMES OF SOCIALISM.
Mrs. Lucy L. Parsons is the most
rampant, genuine Anarchist in the
country. She is a mediumsized wo-
man, Of good figure, at dark, brown
like complexion, high cheek bones,
with hair inclined to be kinky. She
was in Baltimore last spring, and
made q speech in Turner Hall.
Among other things she said:
II heard that bomb, and l never
heard sound like it. 1t was hear d
around the civilized world. This is
what science has done for civiliza-
ton. A dirty, greasy man may
stand in the street and Stay thOus.
ands. | believe as gunpowder abol-
ished the feudalism of the Middle
Ages, SO will dynamite abolish the
wage slave system of the nineteenth
century. Who threw it? No one
knows. If one little bomb was
thrown for the cause, why not one
thousand thrown against this wage
system of America? There is no
law in Illinois against the manufac-
ture of bombs, and if an Anarchist
did throw it, he violated no law OF
this Union. The United States it.
self has become a wholesale manu-
facture of dynamite. 1t has appro-
priated millions for dynamite cruis-
ers. Ii you saw 200 policemen
coming in that door with pistols and
clubs, nnd murder in their eyes, and
you threw a bomb at them, would
you violate any law in this countryg
[Cries of mo! Norl You can take
either horn of the dilemma you
Observation-Disclosures thugs or some
one hired to support your Constitu-
ton. The drag-nets were dragged
over the vermin in the slams, and
detectives were organized. Have
you any here 2 r Yes, yes Several
detectives were standing in the rear
of the hall. The papers gloated
over it, and called your liberties An
archism, and ON the scaffold you will
see Your liberties strangled."
She told the story of her own ar
rest and examination. "Every move.
ment of the people," she went on,
(" when these men are strangled will
be called anarchy. If these seven
death.tTaps fall for the sake of
capital, let your boosted flag hang
half mast with shame written on it.
When these traps do fall you will
hear million cry. Justice has tax,
ell hand before, and she will do it
again in this century, and we will
have the universal emancipation of
labor. | don't ask you to endorse
anarchy, but read in this verdict a
sign OF the times. All your masters
have to do is to call every movement
anarchy, erect a scaffold and stran-
gle liberty. The civilization which
compells young girls to sell their viz
tue in the streets for a living is a
damnable one, and for such civiliza-
ton as this these men will have to
die. Bread is freedom, and free.
dom is hread.,"
EyTPENrES or cTArES,rANcIyrD
ATLANTA, GA, November IL
Gen. henry r. Jackson several days
ago wrote "a letter to ex-senator
Thurman, of Ohio, in regard to the
attack of tho latter upon him. He
denies that he ever was an office.
seeker; denies the charges concern
ing the Mexican mission; again ex-
plains his Macon speech, contend.
ing there was nothing wrong in it,
and concludes as follows. "Simply
because of my baving made speech
of such character, upon such an
occasion, to an audience of veteran
soldiers, called together for no poiti.
cal purpose whatever, you, and the
swarm of insects which have been
buzzing about my name-delighted,
perhaps, in the thought that they
were infiicting upon me the venom
of their sting-have held me up to
the world as the meanly vindictive
enemy of the Democratic party, pre-
pared to harm it to full extent of
my malignant power. Is it possible
that we of the South are thus to be
welcomed back INTO the Union, even
by the Democratic party of the
North?"
care we to stand in perpetual
terror of opening our mouths any
where, or upon any occasion, to say
one word in commentator of our
past or in honor of our dead, or in
vindication OF what we know to be
the truth of history, lest we may
say something to injure the Demo.
cratic party 7"
" Is it not sufficient that we have
been stripped Of our property, and
of many things far more dearer to
us than property can ever be p
"Must we also consent to sink in
to the abysses of silence our good
name ? Must we keep our peace un
less we be prepared to kiss the hand
that smites us, and to place our
selves in the rank of trucking
hypocrites
Must our children grow up
around us, hearing at the home-f fire.
side the story of the past and realiz
ing that their fathers dare not re-
peat it In the face of the world ~
"Will this be the school iu which
to train them for the manful dis
charge of the grand duties imposed
by American civilization noon the